Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
